On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Ross Cavanagh <cavanagh at intalio.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Neil Aggarwal <neil at jammconsulting.com> >> wrote: >> >> days, Mozilla Firefox just hangs "connecting to ...." How can I tell >> >> if they have started blocking IP addresses from Colombia? >> > >> > Try using a few traceroute servers to see if other IP addresses >> > from Colombia other countries are able to get to them. >> > >> > Other than that, I don't think you can tell from the >> > outside. >> >> Neil: Thank you! I didn't know trace route servers existed. From the >> below, it looks to me as if there may be a problem, at the router >> past the last one I was able to get to, since the University of >> Maryland and Careleton University trace route servers also got stuck, >> just past where I got stuck. Possibly it's intermittent, since the >> site is showing "up" and I was able to get to it, using an Anonymous >> Web Browser. Snow in Houston? :-) Lanny <snip> >> [lanny at dell2400 ~]$ ping mobile-review.com >> PING mobile-review.com (217.65.6.13) 56(84) bytes of data. >> (and it dies there) >> > not exactly what your after, but handy sometimes. > > http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ > > -Ross- Ross: That's probably the first place I checked and it showed that web site was "up" and then I was able to access it, via an anonymous web browser service. At first, I thought maybe they were blocking Colombian IPs, or, that I had a problem with the Caching DNS in my IPCop box, but, now, I believe there is a connectivity problem, in Russia. I will try to contact them, so they can troubleshoot the networking problem. Lanny